The Smoke Detectives

Starring SCTV's Joe Flaherty as Count Floyd, this fire safety video is a rare classic. It's still taught in some schools today, it's that comprehensive and entertaining.

LeapFrog: Learn to Read at the Storybook Factory

Embark on a magical reading adventure with Tad and Lily! Deep inside the Storybook Factory--where pictures, words and imagination bring stories to life--Tad, Lily, Casey and Dot decide to put a few new twists on a classic tale. The result is a fun-filled adventure that turns reading into a delightful game! Special features include sing-along songs to help your little ones learn, complete with a string of read-along words that run across the screen.

Queen of Condoms

Ceschi and Stamm's documentary tells the incredible story of Monika Krause, a former East German citizen, who became Fidel Castro's Sexual Education Minister. After 20 years in Cuba, Krause set the Cuban sexual revolution in motion: in favor of a woman's right to sexual fulfillment and legal abortion, and against exclusion of homosexuals, she acquired the title "Queen of Condoms". A film about potent female agitators, staunch macho men and Caribbean love lives.

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The Bike

A boy steals his neighbor's brand new bike with his friend. They go on a ride to the park, where the stolen bike is damaged. The boy is left to decide if he should tell the truth or protect his friend.

Another Side of the Forest

This documentary looks at developments in the Canadian forestry industry from the 1970s. Turning a Newfoundland bog into woodland, fostering British Columbia seedlings that withstand mechanical planting, inoculating Ontario elms against the bark beetle, devising ways of controlling fire... these are some of the experiments shown being carried out in laboratories and in the field to protect and conserve the country's vast forests.

Lost Puppy

A young girl's puppy escapes the yard while her mother is at work. She goes out on her own to find her puppy, first to the park, and then to a bus depot. An educational short film to promote class discussion.

Rookies

HipHop as a language and an outlet for young people: The film follows the youngest class members of a dance academy on their way to becoming professional dancers. Many of the students come from the socially deprived areas of Paris. Accompanied by a pulsating, dancing camera that pulls the audience right into the action, the film negotiates themes such as origins, pains, dreams and hopes.

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Ijime: Ikenie no Kyoushitsu

Sera is the queen of the school, and everyone who bothers her becomes the "sacrifice", which is mistreated by everyone.

Passfire

A film about fireworks, the people who make them and the cultures behind them across the globe.

Almost Arcady

Educational film about Cyprus - landscape, people, work, traditions etc.

Unstoppable Solar Cycles

Concern over global climate change may be at an all-time high, but climate change is nothing new - the earth's climate always followed natural cycles of warming and cooling. In Unstoppable Solar Cycles, Dr. Willie Soon and Dr. David Legates challenge the popular idea that human-generated CO2, is causing catastrophic global warming. These scientists propose an alterantive theory - that the current warming has more to do with solar activity than with human activity.

The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays

Part of acclaimed filmmaker Frank Capra's "Wonders of Life" series of science-based films (which won an Emmy Award for Best Editing) teaches kids about the power of gamma rays and radiation.

Theory of the C-1 Autopilot, Part 1: Basic Principles

Animated training film demonstrating the process by which an autopilot uses gyroscopic controls to maintain an airplane in level flight.

The Lady, or the Tiger?

A visually experimental adaptation of the classic Frank Stockton short story.